April 2018 is coming and we would like to inform you about some details. Gomocup 2018 will take place on April 27th to April 29th 2018. The deadline is on the 20th of April 2018 at 23:59pm UTC.

From this year, we no longer require AIs to be Win32 compatible, which means you can submit pure x64 programs only. The rest of compatibility requirement of Gomocup 2018 will be the same as that of 2017. If you are new to Gomocup, we strongly recommend to read compatibility details.

In accordance with Gomocup 2017, we will have tournaments for freestyle gomoku, standard gomoku, and renju in Gomocup 2018. One author is allowed to submit different AIs for different rules, though one author is not allowed to submit more than one AI for one rule. Memory limit is determined to 350MB, time per move/per match will be 5s/120s for fast game, 300s/1000s for final leagues, and 30s/180s for the rest.

In the past year, we have received requests to increase the limitation on AI size to allow AIs with large models to participate, so we decide to change the limitation on AI size from 4 MB to 8 MB. For details, you can refer to detail information.

We are looking for sponsorship for Gomocup 2018, to support our web hosting fees and/or provide souvenirs for participants. If you are interested, please contact us: gomocup@gmail.com .

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April 2017 is coming and we would like to inform you about some details. Gomocup 2017 will take place on April 21st to April 23rd 2017.The deadline is on the 14th of April 2017 at 23:59pm UTC.

Compatibility requirement of Gomocup 2017 will be the same as that of 2016. If you are new to Gomocup, we strongly recommend to read compatibility details.

In accordance with Gomocup 2016, we will have tournaments for freestyle gomoku, standard gomoku, and renju in Gomocup 2017, and one author is allowed to submit different AIs for different rules, although one author is not allowed to submit more than one AI for one rule. Memory limit is determined to 350MB, time per move/per match will be 5s/120s for fast game, 300s/1000s for final leagues, and 30s/180s for the rest.

Since the Piskvork manager started to offer native support for hybrid programs from version 8.7 r28, and more and more programs started to support both platforms x86 and x64, we decide to change the limitation on AI size from 2 MB to 4 MB. For details, you can refer to detail information.

We are looking for sponsorship for Gomocup 2017, to support our web hosting fees and/or provide souvenirs for participants. If you are interested, please contact us: gomocup@gmail.com .

In Gomocup 2016, in addition to freestyle gomoku and standard gomoku, we will introduce renju tournament this year. The tournament manager Piskvork supports the renju rule since version 8.8. The tournament manager will send command "INFO rule 4" to inform the rule is renju. The size of board for renju tournament will be 15. The rule used in the renju tournament will be based on the international rules of renju with the following modifications:
* Similar to the freestyle and standard tournaments, the openings for the renju tournament will be prepared by renju experts, and are not limited to the 26 patterns;
* Players (i.e. the AIs) are not allowed to pass;
* Any game in renju tournament will be automatic draw after 200 moves.